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What Do Panic Attacks Feel Like?

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Is this real or is it just happening inside my head?  I encountered with my first panic attack five months ago. It was for the first time when I felt an extreme sense of fear while I was in the office busy preparing for an important presentation. It felt like the room was spinning and I was at once like unable to breathe because I experienced as if my heart was throbbing out of my chest and a feeling of dying. I was intensely shaken after that episode.

After that day, I again had a panic attack about three weeks later, and from then on it was eventuating with an increasing rate of occurrence. I never knew when I  would suffer a panic attack again. Therefore, I was left at home after my office, rather than enjoying with my friends as I feared of having an attack in general community.

Many times, I managed to cope up with my work but was withdrawing from my daily activities to avoid the panic attack. I realized that these attacks were worsening my life slowly.

By now, you might have got a picture of how and what is a panic attack like? Yes, a  panic attack is like an unexpected surge of sweeping fear and anxiety. During a panic attack, some people might face a single event or even two, while few of them experience severe fear and worry that leads to a full-blown panic disorder.

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Panic Attacks Leads to Panic Disorders in Brain. How?

What do you think might be the link between the brain and a panic attack? Generally, the terms paranoia, anxiety, depression mainly relate to the brain and, so is the panic attack and a panic disorder too. A repeated panic attack often leads to panic disorder, as a part which basically stems from an abnormal task within the clusters of the nerves present inside the brain of the human body.

Thus a person preoccupied with panic attack feels a unique kind of stress and a fear which shakes his/her mind or the brain and that happens when they come across something that is unknown or uncomfortable. These attacks usually occur without a warning and crash down like an avalanche.

A panic attack might be a one-time happening, but some people experience repeat events. These attacks are sometimes activated by a particular situation, like speaking in public or crossing a bridge, driving the car- mainly if that specific situation has occurred before.

These attacks frequently strike when you are away from your home, yet these happen at anytime and anywhere.

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Panic attacks, if left untreated would impact one’s personal life, professional life and even his/her daily activities would be effected. Hence the sooner you look for a cure, the better you will feel.

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